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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
etter than theirs, he will get before him and be in readiness to receive him when he comes upon the coast. I see nothing to prevent the recovery of the whole country to the king's obedience. So the troops in Virginia which were already embarked were ordered to remain there. As to quitting the Chesapeake entirely, wrote Clinton in a letter received by Cornwallis on the twenty-first of July, I July 21. cannot entertain a thought of such a measure. I flatter myself you will at least hold Old Point Comfort, if it is possible to do it without York. And four days later Clinton urged again: It ever has been, is, and ever will be, my firm and unalterable opinion that it is of the first consequence to his Majesty's affairs on the continent, that we take pos- Chap. XXV.} 1781. July. session of the Chesapeake, and that we do not afterwards relinquish it. Remain in Chesapeake, at least until the stations I have proposed are occupied and established. It never was my intention to continue